Re: Intent to remove build systems for outdated platforms

Jeffrey Walton via xml <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:19:30 -0500

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 3:15 PM Jan Tojnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 14:38 -0500, Jeffrey Walton via xml wrote:
> > Rather than deleting them, how about moving them to archive/ or
> > similar. If they are archived they will still be available in case
> > some folks are using them.
>
> Then people would need to move them outside the archive/ directory or
> update the paths to be able to use them.

Yes.

> At that point it would be
> easier for them to just revert the removal commit.

No. If they have been deleted, how are folks to know they are even
available (or once were available)? This is pretty easy:

    cp -p archive/libxml2.mcp.xml.sit.hqx .

What Git commands do you need to execute to even find libxml2.mcp.xml.sit.hqx?

Jeff